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A80933 A letter from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Parliament of England giving an account of the proceedings of the army there under his Lordships command; and several transactions between his Lordship and the Governor of Wexford. Together with a relation of the taking in of Wexford, with the fort, haven and shipping there; and of several other garisons of the enemy. As also the propositions tendred for the rendition of Wexford: and a copy of a censure, under the hand of Nicholas Bishop of Fernes, against Talbot who dyed a Protestant. Ordered by the Parliament, that these letters and transactions be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1649-1650 : Cromwell); Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.; Sinnot, David.; England and Wales. Parliament. Proceedings. 1649-10-30. 1649 (1649) Wing C7101A; Thomason E576_2; ESTC R206358 8,208 18

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your answer hereunto within an hour and rest Your Servant O. C. Octob. 4. 1649. For the Lord General Cromwel SIR I Have returned you a civil answer to the best of my judgement and thereby I finde you undervalue me and this place so much as you think to have it surrendred without capitulation or honorable terms as appears by your hours limitation in your last Sir had I never a man in this Town but the Townsmen and the Artillery here planted I should conceive my self in a very befitting condition to make Honorable Conditions and having a considerable Party with them in the place I am resolved to dye honorably or make such Conditions as may secure my Honor and Life in the eyes of my own Party to which reasonable terms if you hearken not or give me time to send my Agents till eight of the clock in the forenoon to morrow with my Propositions with a further safe Conduct I leave you to your better judgement and my self to the assistance of the Almighty And so conclude Your Servant Da. Sinnot Wexford 4. Octob. 1649. For the Lord General Cromwel My Lord Even as I was ready to send out my Agents unto you the Lord General of the Horse came hither with a relief unto whom I communicated the proceedings between your Lordship and me and delivered him the Propositions I intended to dispatch unto your Lordship who hath desired a small time to consider of them and to speed them unto me which my Lord I could not deny he having a Commanding power over me pray my Lord believe that I do not do this to trifle out time but for his present content and if I finde any long delay in his Lordships returning them back unto me I will proceed of my self according to my first intention to which I beseech your Lordship give credit at the request My Lord of your Lordships ready Servant Da Sinnot Wexford 5 Octob. 1649. To the Commander in Chief in Wexford SIr You might have spared your trouble in the accompt you give me of your Transaction with the Lord General of your Horse and of your Resolution in case he answer not your expectation in point of time These are your own concernments and it behoves you to improve and the relief you mention to your best advantage All that I have to say is to desire you to take notice that I do hereby revoke my safe Conduct from the persons mentioned therein when you shall see cause to Treat you may send for another I rest Sir Your Servant O. C. Octob. 6. 1649. For the Lord General Cromwel SIr my Propositions being now prepared I am ready to send my Agents with them unto you and for their safe return I pray you to send a safe conduct by the bearer unto me in hope an Honotable Agreement may thereupon arise between your Lordship and My Lord Your Lordships Servant Da Sinnot Wexford 5 Octob. 1649. For the Lord General Cromwel SIr In performance of my last I desire your Lordship to send me a safe conduct for Major Theobald Dillon Major James Birn Alderman Nicholas Chevers and Captain James Stafford whom I will send to your Lordship instructed with my desires and so I rest My Lord Your Servant Da Sinnot Wexford 11 Octob. 1649. For the Lord General Cromwel .. SIr the safe conduct being left you and never coming to my hands through the ignoranee of the Messenger I pray you to send it me by the bearer and I will send forth the persons on receipt thereof who are ready for that purpose So I rest My Lord Your Lordships Servant Da Sinnot Wexford 11 Octob. 1649. The Propositions of Col David Sinnot Governor of the Town and Castle of Wexford for and on the behalf of the Officers and Soldiers and Inhabitants in the said Town and Castle unto General Cromwel IMprimis That all and every the Inhabitants of the said Town from time to time and at all times hereafter shall have free and uninterrupted liberty publiquely to use exercise and profess the Roman Catholick Religion without restriction mulct or penalty Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding II. That the regular and secular Roman Catholick Clergy now possessed of the Churches Church-Livings Monasteries Religious Houses and Chappels in the said Town and in the Suburbs and Franchises thereof and their successors shall have hold and enjoy to them and their Successors for ever the said Churches Church Livings Monasteries Religious Houses and Chappels and shall teach and preach in them publiquely without any molestation Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding III. That Nicholas now Lord Bishop of Ferns and his Successors shall use and exercise such Jurisdiction over the Catholicks of his Diocess as since his consecration hitherto he used IV. That all the Officers and Soldiers of what quality or degree soever in the said Town and Castle and such of the Inhabitants as are so pleased shall march with flying Colours and be conveyed safe with their Lives Artillery Ordnance Ammunition Arms Goods of all sorts Horses Moneys and what else belongs to them to the Town of Ross and there be left safe with their own party allowing each Muskettier towards their march a pound of powder four yards of match and twelve brace of Bullets and a strong Convoy to be sent with the said Soldiers within four and twenty hours after the yielding up of the said Town V. That such of the Inhabitants of the said Town as will desire to leave the same at any time hereafter shall have free liberty to carry away out of the said Town all their Frigots Artillery Arms Powder Bullets Match Corn Mault and other provision which they have for their defence and sustenance and all their goods and Chattels of what quality or condition soever without any maner of disturbance whatsoever and have Passes and safe Conducts and Convoys for their lives and said goods to Ross or where else they shall think fit VI. That the Major Bayliffs Freeburgesses and Commons of the said Town may have hold and enjoy the said Town and Suburbs their Commons their Franchises and their Liberties and Immunities which hitherto they enjoyed and that the Major Bayliffs and Freeburgesses may have the Government of the said Town as hitherto they enjoyed the same from the Realm of England and that they may have no other Government they adhering to the State of England and observing their Orders and the Orders of their Governors in this Realm for the time being VII That all and every the Burgesses and Inhabitants either Native or Stranger of the said Town who shall continue their ahode therein or come to live there within three Moneths and their heirs shall have hold and enjoy All and singular their several Castles Messuages Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Land of Ireland and all their goods and Chattels of what nature quality or condition soever to them and their heirs to their own several uses for ever without molestation VIII That such Burgess or Burgesses or other Inhabitant of he said Town as shall at any time hereafter he desirous to leave the said Town shall have free leave to dispose of their Real and Personal Estates respectively to their best advantage and further have full liberty and a safe Conduct respectively to go into England or elsewhere according to their several pleasures who shall desire to depart the same IX That all and singular the Inhabitants of the said Town either Native or Stranger from time to time at all times hereafter shal have reap and enjoy the full Liberty of Free-born English Subjects without the least incapacity or restriction therein and that all the Free-men of the said Town from time to time shall be as Free in all the Sea-Ports Cities and Towns in England as the Free-men of all and every the said Cities and Towns and all and every the Free-men of the said Cities and Towns to be as Free in the said Town of Wexford as the Free-men there of for their greater incouragement to Trade and Commerce together of all hands X. That no memory remain of any Hostility or distance which was hitherto between the said Town and Castle of the one part and the Parliament or State of England of the other part but that all act and acts transgressions offences depradations and other Crimes of what nature or quality soever be they ever so transcendent attempted or done or supposed to be attempted or done by the Inhabitants of the said Town or any other heretofore or at present adhering to the said Town either Native or Stranger and every of them shall pass in Oblivion without chastisement challenge recompence demand or questioning for them or any of them now or at any time hereafter THe Body of Francis Talbot who dyed an obstinate Heretique and finally therein impenitent is to be Buried in Paenam Haereseos finalis Impenitentiae nec non in terrorem aliorum with only one Candle at the Grave at nine of the clock by night without a Bell in the Church or Street without Priest Cross Book or Prayer the place of his Burial is to be in the Ale of St. Mary's Church-Yard nearest to the Garden of the Parsonage All which concerning the said Burial we have ordered to be done with the advice of men learned in Divinity and who shall exceed this maner of the said Francis his Burial is to incur Church-Censures No Wax Taper or Candle or Torch is to be used Nicholaus Episcopus Fernensis Given at the Fryars Monastery the last of December 1646. FINIS